Tag Archives: allotment

Getting my bee-jo back

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Emily Scott

I didn’t post about the bees last weekend because I felt especially down about my beekeeping skills after an intense catalogue of failures on Saturday. First, I failed to find Queen Stella in my allotment bees, which would have been particularly useful … Continue reading →

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What’s flowering now – mid April; and a new allotment site for our bees

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Emily Scott

Those of you who have followed this blog for a while know that in the summer I like to go for a walk round my local park (Elthorne Park in Hanwell) and see what wild flowers are out. Last week … Continue reading →

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Allotment adventure

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Emily Scott

I was down at the apiary on Saturday when one of the other beekeepers, John Chapple, mentioned that he had been left an answering phone message telling him that the roof of a hive on an allotment in Perivale had … Continue reading →

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